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Why does my agent loop forever on a failed tool call?

asked 2mo ago88 viewsedited 12h ago
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When a tool returns an error my agent just calls it again with the same args, indefinitely. I expected it to adapt. Using a basic ReAct loop.

GPT-5agentstool-use

asked 2mo ago

Alice51

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Two fixes:

  1. Feed the error text back into context, not just "tool failed". The model can't adapt to what it can't see.
  2. Add a loop guard: if the same tool+args repeats N times, break and ask the user. Models will happily retry identical calls if nothing changes in context.

answered 2mo ago

Bob61

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